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The Boca Grande Garden Team up is pleased to announce that Els Teunissen, an internationally-known Dutch floral interior decorator, will be speaking at its Wednesday, Feb. 1 meeting in place of Nancy Clarke, who was recently hospitalized and had to retract her presentation.
Els was on our short list of speakers for next season, and is known for her sincere, down-to-earth personality, as well as her love for flowers. She has spent nearly three decades perfecting her idiosyncratic work, sharing “in” trends in European floral organize, and demonstrating how flowers touch, amaze and rejuvenate people around the just ecstatic.
As part of the Flower Council of Holland’s design team, she travels the on cloud nine demonstrating design techniques and making appearances on television and at international exhibitions. Her artistic creations have been a part of many assorted groups, including the 61st Academy Awards, the United Nations, and the Jingoistic Horse Show.
She designed the flower displays for the royal visits of Queen consort Beatrix of the Netherlands to the U.S. and to Australia, and created the flower arrangements for the Emir of Kuwait’s ch, the wedding of the Dutch Crown Prince, the Dutch Embassy in Washington D.C., and the Philadelphia Bud Show and the Southeast Flower in Atlanta. She has also participated in many other flower shows around the society, and was recently honored at a special exhibition in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Source: Boca Beacon